If video games determined our real world behavior,

I’d be a robot witnessing the fall of humanity, whose crime was free will

Don’t know if that translates to a job necessarily

Force close Explorer.exe and you’ll be able to eject

The USB drives are effectively perma-mounted and the eject command does not work, if even one instance of Explorer is open.

I know someone who was working on the Teams codebase. Even they don’t like using Teams (it wouldn’t open properly on Ubuntu for some reason).

I had this exact, acute thought as I was going up the sweaty people filled stairs into a rave hall.

“What the hell am I doing” and also: “Would I do this if I were 53?”

I looked down at my hard abs and skin-tight shirt and had a bit of a Zen moment, thinking: “Youth is wasted on the young. You’re young. Enjoy this opportunity.”

I was 21, I danced and partied my heart out that night and I regret nothing.

Imagine breaking down while fishing, raising your engine, and setting up a distress call and being excited to see an American vessel approaching to help.

It then stops, trains its guns on you, and fires explosive shells.

Weirdly enough, only Debian has the most “OSy” logo of the six:

Why a devil for BSD? Why a pufferfish for BSD?

It feels like I’m looking at different IBM OS/2 patch disks and Debian is like “This is the one where we made it not crash”

I lived and breathed Morrowind.

But I’ve got optimistic insane news for you all

IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN

I’m playing a game called Kenshi and it feels like it’s 2003!

I’m at the verge of tears. Chase that gaming high, YOU’LL FIND IT!!!

Replacements:

Titanium Backup -> SystemPanel2

MX Player -> Poweramp

Google Play Music -> YouTube Music

ES File Explorer -> FX File Explorer

Swype Keyboard -> Gboard

Google Plus -> Google One

Inbox -> Gmail

SuperSU -> Magicsk

You’re welcome :3

What’s an “immutable” distro? Is this like the OSS version of a closed/prop kernel?

This is an accurate take.

With superhuman strength, you need to exercise 6-8 hours per day for minor benefits, whereas most regular people start seeing benefits from even 15 minutes of moderate walking per day.

Just the gamers. Real live tabletop players often forget about half of their inventory and rely on “what works” to get them out of trouble, when it doesn’t, they do crazy shit like spill oil and then throw a candle at it to set the entire tavern on fire.

https://youtu.be/TFfs_D6JzEo

Day One Beta Cheats in BF6

The guy carrying tanks of napalm smoking a cigarette always gets to me 😁

KDE Plasma is genuinely good

Kubuntu is a drop-in replacement for Windows 10

It’s difficult to find, Project Rene is over two years old now, this is some early test demo footage:

https://youtu.be/IKn3mskT5yM

Project Rene or whatever the hell Sims 5 was supposed to be was suffering from significant takeoff, vision, conceptual and design issues.

Every day, five or six designers would argue about if a feature was inclusive enough, a gesture was offensive, a Simlish term or phrase was close enough to a real life slur.

What they learned was that reality is actually quite cruel and biased and creating their perfect garden hedge-maze of a game removed the essence and life out of it. Sims 5 did not reflect the reality that players actually experienced or had day-to-day, and it was entirely the designer’s fault.

They had created the very thing they despised, a cookie-cutter digital suburbian barbie doll house. With multiplayer, ripe for trolling.

So yeah, I’m not surprised Sims 5 was cancelled.

Ergonomic chairs, high end sports cars, and staying active has kept my back in great shape.

Also, {{{posture check}}}

Before piracy there were demos and shareware, which let you see if your machine could handle the game or content and give you a vertical slice, and let you show it to friends for word of mouth advertising.

Then, Steam put a two hour refund window with no questions asked, which helped a lot of “this crashes on start, I can’t open this at all on a RTX 4090/high end PC, 15 FPS in the fog, etc”.

Developers learned from that and they began padding/gating content behind two hours of gameplay, so you wouldn’t know until 3-4 hours in that the game was grindy dogshit (SCUM, Ark, Empyrion, and countless other Early Access and sometimes full release titles like NMS on launch day for example).

So the correct thing to do, and it’s what I do: Pirate the game, make sure it runs/works and is fun and there’s no “gotcha” traps or hidden DLCs or other predatory mechanics involved, and THEN pay for the full title on Steam+DLCs and just continue the save.

My Steam Account has actually already been flagged over a dozen times for this because my primary savegames are like Razor1911.sav, and so far it’s still in good status because I am actually spending a couple thousand/year on content.

It’s theory of mind and consciousness level stuff. I don’t really know; I read about it ages ago and that was the conclusion, it was “pod behavior” and not vengeance or something higher-level.

Basically, the bar for a behavior/explanation has to be very high in science.